Posted on 03/26/2019 7:39:17 PM PDT by blam
Tuesday at a press conference, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel strongly criticized “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett in connection to filing a false police report about an alleged hate crime.
On prosecutors the dropping charges, Emanuel said, “This is a whitewash of justice. A grand jury could not have been clearer — to the cost, $10,000 doesn’t come close financially, but all the other repercussions of this decision made to me, where is the accountability in the system?”
He continued, “Mr. Smollett is still saying that he is innocent, still running down the Chicago police department. How dare him? How dare him? After everybody saw––and I want to remind you, this is not the superintendent’s word against his. The grand jury, a sliver of the evidence, and they came to a conclusion as did the state attorney’s office. This is not the superintendent and the detectives’ department word against his. And even after this whitewash, there is still no sense of ownership of what he’s done. He says that, in fact, he is the wronged in this case. This is an unbelievable not just whitewash of justice. This is a person now who has not been let off scot-free with no sense of accountability of the moral and ethical wrong of his actions from top to bottom. I cannot stress enough that in a time when you have people bringing a moral equivalency in Virginia between bigots and those fighting bigotry, when you have a person using hate crime laws that are on the books to protect people who are minorities from violence, to then turn around and use those laws to advance your career and your financial reward, is there no decency in this man?”
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Yeah, it’s frightening. It’s like the Apocalypse is upon us. Rahm Emanuel is taking the morally right position. Shudder.
You said "whitewash" when referring to a Black man.
Better watch your back.
So true, a shiny object for the press to report.
It is disgusting what the Left thinks will be most distracting to Trump loyalists.
They're the bigots!
This crap won't end until we have a legal system where those who make false accusations face the same legal and financial consequences as other criminals. In other words, if you make a false claim of felonious assault, you should do the same time as someone convicted of felonious assault. If you make false rape claims, you should serve the same prison sentence as a rapist would serve. That would put an end to the Jussie Smollett "hate crime" race-baiter hoaxes and to the #MeToo feminist harpies very quickly.
This nation has become so dumbed down, if the Democrats ran a Kapernick-Smollett ticket for 2020, almost half the country would vote for them.
I thought it was a typo and should have been “now”.
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